ABOUT

MISSION

Our mission is to empower the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) community and our allies to take bold action to demand LGBTQ liberation, and to hold accountable those who stand in the way.

VISION

We envision a society in which LGBTQ people are liberated from what we've been told is respectable, reasonable, or possible. We fight for freedom from the systems that tell us that the white, cisgender, male, heteronormative, affluent lifestyle is the ideal and all other ways of being are less than.

THEORY OF CHANGE

- GetEQUAL is a grassroots network that believes the energy, vision, and work toward our collective liberation can and must come from the ground, in communities that are most directly impacted by the work.

- We are actively working to live that commitment in the ways we allocate resources, the issues and campaigns we prioritize, the activists we reach out to and support, the organizations with which we partner, and who/how we hire. We do this because we believe that when those of us who exist on the margins and face the deepest impacts of oppression get free, we all get free. This means we are committed to centering the experiences of transgender people of color, those who are undocumented or detained, those living in rural places, and those who are low income.

- We believe in sharing these and other values with our network and supporters and being as open and honest as possible about the growth and shifts of our work.

- We understand that systems of oppression like white supremacy, patriarchy, capitalism, homophobia, and transphobia are interdependent and work to keep all of us -- especially LGBTQ people of color -- from living our liberated lives. We organize in places and around issues where the impacts of these systems of oppression intersect.​

BACKGROUND

In 2010, GetEQUAL launched with a call for full equality now. The organization was born out of a sense of urgency from LGBTQ people across the country who were demanding more than the slow-paced, heteronormative version of "equality" that was popular at the time,

Thanks to the organizing of GetEQUAL activists -- and many other radical organizing groups working to shift policy and change culture in their communities -- the call for full LGBTQ equality has been adopted by those same groups that were dismissive just five years ago. But just as in 2010, the urgency, energy and needs of LGBTQ people today are again beyond the vision of most community and political leaders.

The inspiring leadership of Black and Latin@ trans folks fighting for dignity and freedom from prisons and detention centers, the Black queer and trans women leading the movement for Black liberation, and the severity of state violence facing LGBTQ people of color has shifted our organizational lens on what we think is possible and what we know is necessary. "Full equality" is no longer enough. We need liberation.

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